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I think that Hacker News, in particular, has a clever implementation of this, with soft-capped threading. IIRC, you must wait something like n^2 seconds after a comment at level n is posted before you can reply to it. Given the short length of time things stay on the front page, this essentially creates a hard cap, albeit a fairly high one.
Commented Dec 14, 2012 on Web Discussions: Flat by Design at Coding Horror
Web Discussions: Flat by Design
It's been six years since I wrote Discussions: Flat or Threaded? and, despite a bunch of evolution on the web since then, my opinion on this has not fundamentally changed. If anything, my opinion has strengthened based on the observed data: precious few threaded discussion models survive on t...
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